China rehearses for massive military parade
Fighter jets flew low over Beijing on Sunday as thousands of soldiers from China, Russia and other countries rehearsed for a military parade next month commemorating the end of World…
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2,558 complaints over Afghan presidential runoff
By RAHIM FAIEZ FILE – In this Sunday, June 15, 2014 file photo, Afghan men, who their fingers have been cut off by Taliban fighters as a punishment for voting,…
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan set up new alliance
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV From left: Belarus President, Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakhstan’s President, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Russian President, Vladimir Putin, pose for a photo after they agreed to create the Eurasian Economic…
AFGHAN WOMEN RALLY AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
By AHMAD SEIR Afghan women listen during a demonstration to protest violence that you can check here, against women in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. Afghan women are marching…
NATO LEADERS SAY AFGHAN TROOPS NEED MORE TRAINING
NATO secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, left, and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy chat during the 50th Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. A three-day security…
AFGHAN EXPRESSES OPTIMISM KARZAI WILL SIGN US PACT
By KAY JOHNSON Afghan National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta addresses a news conference at presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. President Hamid Karzai’s national security adviser…
AFGHAN PRESIDENT AGAIN DEMANDS US AIRSTRIKES END
An Afghan police walks ahead of members of civil society organizations for their protection as they march in a street, during an anti terrorism demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan.…
SUICIDE ATTACK ON AFGHAN RESTAURANT KILLS 21
By PATRICK QUINN Afghan security forces investigate the aftermath of Friday’s suicide attack and shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a…